fondaient
\fɔ̃.dɛ\
The verdict
“fondaient” is uncommon French (frequency #75,700 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,700
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de fonder.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fondaient · fondaient · French
fondaient · rank #75,700 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,700
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fonceur
Nearest frequency peer: fonceur (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « fondaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- floristique
floristique
24,304 corpus weight
- fonceur
fonceur
24,302 corpus weight
- fondaient
fondaient
24,301 corpus weight
- fourguer
fourguer
24,300 corpus weight
- foxtrot
foxtrot
24,299 corpus weight
- fragilisent
fragilisent
24,298 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fondaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fondaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɔ̃.dɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #75,700 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fondaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fondaient is uncommon French at frequency #75,700 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fɔ̃.dɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de fonder.".
fondaient has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is fondaient, spelled F-O-N-D-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de fonder.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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